Friday, June 19, 2015

Doomed:
The House has
approved giving Obama the authority to negotiate away American
sovereignty, 218 to 208. The only hope now would be a no vote once
the deed is done, but there has never, not once, been a defeat of a
trade agreement once fast track authority has been granted. Again.
Best we can hope for is that it is yet another straw...

Junkyard
Dogs:NATO's
attempt to impress the Russians with the recent naval exercises might
have gone better if one of the Polish landing craft hadn't sunk.

Comes
The Dawn:
Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. Republicans on their star chamber
committee spent Tuesday grilling Clinton insider Sidney Blumenthal
about the inner workings
of the Clinton's philanthropic
and political operations, not about Benghazi. It was never about
Benghazi and was always a witch hunt. Yet another one.

Be
Prepared:
Research suggests that far from being a boon to the American economy,
the TPP will essentially extend the losses to American workers far
beyond the 5 million jobs lost to NAFTA. TheFault Is Not In Our Stars...Someday soon it may
occur to us that there is something quite wrong with our society and
even to suspect that guns may be a significant part not only of our
bloody history but our bloody future. People
like Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum who claim it was not a
racial shooting but “an attack on Christians” and part of an
“religious liberty” should be ashamed, as should those in the
South
Carolina legislature (where the
Confederate flag still flies) who want to expand the right to gun
down black congregations. The pretense of self-defense is specious –
there are
32 gun homicides for every one justifiable shooting. If
Only:Germany
plans
to
convert 60 former military bases into nature preserves.

Reality
Check: Despite
the platitudinous report from the EPA declaring fracking innocent of
contaminating groundwater supplies, water throughout the Barnett
Shale basin is contaminated with "multiple volatile organic
carbon compounds - various alcohols, the BTEX family of compounds and
several chlorinated compounds - " all of which are “associated”
with the fracking industry, as are increases
in earthquakes. Porn
O'Graph: Read
'em and reap.

Our Motto

Keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.